6.0

The Merrymen – Merry Christmas with the Merrymen

One thing you’re often told about Christmas music is just how fake it is. How commercial. How plastic.

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6.0

Swingle Singers – Noëls sans Passeport

As a European Union national living in the United Kingdom, 2017 promises to be a year of changes.

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8.0

Chet Atkins – Christmas with Chet Atkins

As long as there have been Christmas records, there have been solo instrumental Christmas records.

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7.0

Melveen Leed – Christmas with Melveen

A young, talented country music singer – from an island where country was something you mostly heard on the radio – way outside her usual style.

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3.0

Frank Sinatra – A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

There are certain contemporary traditions in which the 23rd of December is a day for airings of grievances.

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9.0

Duke Pearson – Merry Ole Soul

Most of the Christmas records we review on this site are perennial classics, constantly reissued and treasured from generation to generation.

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8.0

Alabama – Christmas

Christmas is meant to be a time of togetherness.

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6.0

Peggy Lee – Christmas Carousel

One of the fantastic things about that golden period in the early sixties, when so many of history’s great Christmas records were released, is that so many truly sophisticate

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8.0

Reilly and Maloney – A Christmas Album

Folk revivals have happened with some regularity during the 20th century. It is a style which tends to come back into fashion a lot.

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6.0

Tracey Thorn – Tinsel and Lights

Albums, we are reliably informed, are to be read as coherent wholes.

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